{"title":"Understanding Metabolized Violence: Intimate and Socio-affective Ties of Terror in Basque Writer Edurne Portela’s El eco de los disparos (2016) and Mejor la ausencia (2017)","authors":"Annabel Martín","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2022.2064632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2022.2064632","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This essay studies the writing of Basque author Edurne Portela (1974) and its special sensitivity toward the micropolitics of violence. Rejecting Basque society’s immunity to the tragedy of ETA violence, ignoring the call to “turn the page” after ETA’s permanent disarmament (2011) and disappearance (2018), Portela’s fiction betrays Basque and Spanish society’s ignorance and insensitivity toward the ways trauma infiltrates the fabric of societal, familial, and interpersonal relationships. Instead of promoting a lazy and cowardly amnesiac turn for post ETA society, Portela prefers to look straight into the eyes of a community known for turning its back on what philosopher Reyes Mate terms a society’s “deber de memoria” or responsibility to remember. Portela’s fiction, essay, and autobiographical writing do just that. On the one hand, they confront readers with the uncomfortable weight of the traumatic experiences unjustly suffered by members of Basque society, injuries that undermine its democratic fabric; on the other, and even more importantly, Portela looks inward, and her fictional universe begs readers to question how this indifference also mutilates the affective life of characters who either look the other way or find it easy to participate and justify the logic of terror and violence.","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44794495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Worlds of Fiction: Contemporary Basque Women Writers","authors":"Cristina Ortiz-Ceberio, M. Pilar Rodríguez","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2022.2064629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2022.2064629","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This special issue focuses on the work of contemporary Basque women writers with four articles dedicated to the study of selected narrative fiction by Katixa Agirre, Karmele Jaio, Edurne Portela, and Eider Rodriguez. A change in the traditionally male canon of Basque literature, represented by figures such as Bernardo Atxaga and Ramon Saizarbitoria, is underway, and female writers are offering new explorations of topics linked to their sociopolitical and affective contexts.","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47170157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La casa del padre en ruinas. La narrativa de Karmele Jaio","authors":"Mari Jose Olaziregi","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2022.2064633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2022.2064633","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article will analyze the thematic and poetic axes that govern Karmele Jaio’s literary universe, with special focus on narrative production formed by three books of short stories—Hamabost zauri (2004; Heridas crónicas, 2010), Zu bezain ahul (2007), and Ez naiz ni (2012)—and two novels—Amaren eskuak (2006; Las manos de mi madre, 2008) and Musika airean (2010; Música en el aire, 2013)—as well as the recipient of the latest Premio Euskadi 2020: Aitaren etxea (2019; La casa del padre, 2020). Jaio’s literary trajectory delves into the silences, lack of communication, and longings of characters many times constrained by gender roles. Women become protagonists in Jaio’s literary universe, a place saturated with glances, memories, and gestures in an intimacy and corporeality that transcends and moves, and has been adapted in the film Amaren eskuak-Las manos de mi madre (2013) by Mireia Gabilondo, also analyzed here in dialogue with Jaio’s original novel. This close reading will situate the author in context with the most recent Basque narrative and serves to interpret, from the commemoration of a violent political past, a contemporary reality marked by the end of decades of terrorism.","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45229955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Katixa Agirre y Los turistas desganados: las dos caras del País Vasco","authors":"Jon Kortazar, Paloma Rodríguez-Miñambres","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2022.2064631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2022.2064631","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article proposes a reading of Katixa Agirre’s (1981) work Atertu arte itxaron (2015), translated as Los turistas desganados (2017). The analysis will include two different aspects: first a consideration of the road-movie structure and then the work will be analyzed through the recuperation of the conflictive memory of violence in the Basque Country. The chapter situates the novel in the context of Katixa Agirre’s narrative work represented in two books of short stories, Sua falta zaigu (2007) and Habitat (2009), and the novel that follows the one in the present study, Amek ez dute (2018), translated as La madres no (2019). Furthermore, certain aspects related to the translation of the works will be studied.","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44209848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nel Golfo Irrequieto: La Narrativa di Piero Chiara","authors":"S. Giannini","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2022.2024007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2022.2024007","url":null,"abstract":"Jessica A. Folkart is a professor of Spanish at Virginia Tech. Her research centers on the cultural representation of identity, immigration, and the liminal body in contemporary Spain. She has authored two books, Liminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium: The Ends of Spanish Identity (Bucknell University Press, 2014) and Angles on Otherness in Post-Franco Spain: The Fiction of Cristina Fernández Cubas (Bucknell University Press, 2002), as well as many articles on Peninsular Spanish literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Her articles have appeared in such journals as Philosophy and Literature, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, and Hispanic Review.","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47990974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visions of Deliverance. Moriscos and the Politics of Prophecy in the Early Modern Mediterranean","authors":"Lisette Balabarca-Fataccioli","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2022.2024009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2022.2024009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48433424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mario Bellatin y Las Formas de la Escritura","authors":"Thomas Matusiak","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2022.2024008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2022.2024008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42653853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Genital Inspections in 1952: Staging the Appearance of Transsexuality in France","authors":"Todd W. Reeser","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2022.2024005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2022.2024005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Jean de Létraz’s unpublished, little-known vaudeville play The Maiden of Auteuil (La pucelle d’Auteuil) ends, after the stage goes black and just before the curtain falls, with six characters performing a genital inspection on the main character Camille, who passed as both a man and a woman over the course of the play. Performed at the Palais-Royal Theatre in Paris in 1952, the comic play highlights anxieties in the 50 s about how cisgender communities know who is and is not “transsexual.” This article interprets this striking final scene in light of the rest of the play and the legal, medical, and cultural context of 1950s France, arguing that the genital inspection performs the reestablishment of public order out of gender disorder at the same time as it warns the French public about the coming hegemony of binarized sexual definition based on external appearance of genitalia, as codified in French juridical discourse.","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43782178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Figures of Exclusion and Embodied Life-Narratives in Najat El Hachmi’s El lunes nos querrán","authors":"Katarzyna Moszczyńska-Dürst","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2022.2024002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2022.2024002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The aim of this article is to analyze the inscription of the embodied and political “I” in El lunes nos querrán (2021), Najat El Hachmi’s most recent novel. The study starts from the premises developed by Martine Leibovici in order to focus on the narrator’s particular social position as an “insider-outsider” as a powerful means of (self)knowledge about the mechanisms of social exclusion and estrangement. Consequently, the literary text, when analyzed as the life-narrative of a defector (transfuge), to employ Leibovici’s term, reveals the “psychic life of power” (Butler) that oppresses women. Gender, as codified in the novel, is a regulatory ideal, materialized in a performative way through the imposed and internalized reiteration of transcultural practices.","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45474591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Insolación de Emilia Pardo Bazán: De la burguesía “fin-de-siècle” al psicoanálisis","authors":"Carlos Feal","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2022.2024004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2022.2024004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Insolación (1889) is Emilia Pardo Bazán’s version of the Don Juan myth, incarnated in the male protagonist Diego Pacheco. A signifier of masculine desire, Pacheco will become Pardo Bazán’s object of projections of men she loved, such as Benito Pérez Galdós, a womanizer, and José Quiroga, her husband from whom she was separated. He also represents a mother figure in the mind of Asís, the religious protagonist whose sexual repression makes her the typical bourgeoise of the so-called Victorian era that preceded the work of Sigmund Freud. The novel, intended to be a confession to a priest, instead turns into a confession to the readers, who thereby become psychoanalysts, modern confessors of souls, as well as recipients of stories. Doña Emilia’s love letters to Galdós, contemporaneous with the novel, contribute to its understanding: external and internal worlds, in Melanie Klein’s terms, interact creatively. The surprising ending (the marriage of Asís and Pacheco) gives rise to a confrontation between the narrator and Asís. Catholic marriage, which binds the spouses forever, is paradoxically seen as the most natural thing and, at the same time, as irrational, senseless. To the Lacanian demand for impossible love that Asís brings to bear must be added the desire of the desire of the Other, experienced by both Asís and Pacheco.","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43190260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}